I'm going to agree with Auto-X-ZTS on this. A big rear sway bar with soft springs is not a setup you want to run on a race track or a highway IMO. This setup is just begging to snap oversteer. What may work well for autocross may bite you on the track (or highway).

A 24mm is the largest RSB I would consider putting on a Focus and only with at least a 22mm front bar and stiffer springs.

I have H&R Sports with KYB AGX. I love it. I do wsh it was a little lower, but the handling is awesome...stock sway bars as well. Remove the rear seats and the car rotates quite nicely, like going with a slightly larger rear sway bar. I can really feel the road with that setup.

Auto-x zts...
I am having a lot of trouble getting my SVT to throttle off oversteer
in the corners. I can pull within 1 second of the Honda times but that is it.
Even with the extreme agressive setup I have, I still cannot get the back
to come around on command. Any ideas???

I'm jumpin in a littel late on this but....
I am running STS in my '03 SVT here in Fort Worth.

I currently have the 28.?mm rear sway
stock 21 front sway
eibach 550# all around
all bushings are poly, including the engine mounts
I have run KYB Agx's for several years and now have
the koni yellows. as far as shocks go they seem the same to me.
I am running the Falkens because bridgerock doesn't make a good
size for this car and I am running 16x7's (helps with the crappy gearing)

bunch of other stuff... doing some legal lightening and taking lots
of autocross schools.

_PA

...by saying you have Eibach 550 pounders all around, I take that you have GC coilovers on the Konis...is that accurate?

Auto-x zts...
I am having a lot of trouble getting my SVT to throttle off oversteer
in the corners. I can pull within 1 second of the Honda times but that is it.
Even with the extreme agressive setup I have, I still cannot get the back
to come around on command. Any ideas???

You have the opposite problem that I have. My ZX2 is like-driving-on-ice loose.

I was about 2.5 seconds off of the 2007 STS National champ this past weekend on a 60 second course...and Jason missed overall PAX by .007, so he's dialed in right off the bat.

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